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Google Cloud Blog

Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID.  The retailer solved both problems and paved the way for a massive cloud expansion by implementing Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation. This direct approach allowed developers to access cloud resources securely using their existing Mi

AI & Machine LearningSecurity & IdentityCustomers
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ExternalCloud
Google Cloud Blog

Detect early and enforce firmly with Google Cloud's enhanced cost controls for AI spend

Generative AI can make cloud costs difficult to predict. A single five-word prompt can run complex operations and generate significant costs. Traditional metrics like requests per second no longer help you estimate your bill, increasing the risk of unexpected cost spikes. While Google Cloud offers budget alerts, you need proactive guardrails that work out of the box - without the friction of writing custom JSON policies, configuring complex roles, or maintaining bespoke scripts.   Today, we are

Cost Management
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ExternalDevOps
CNCF Blog

CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe

Summit gathers practitioners, contributors and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the...

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ExternalDevOps
HashiCorp Blog

Terraform AzureRM provider 5.0 now generally available

The Terraform AzureRM provider serves as the bridge between Terraform configurations and Azure, giving teams a consistent, scalable, and secure way to define and manage Azure infrastructure as code. Today we're announcing general availability of Terraform AzureRM Provider 5.0. This major release gives users more control over how the provider interacts with Azure subscriptions, introduces opt-in Azure preflight validation, and removes resources and properties deprecated across previous releases. 

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Blog

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact. The post Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

SecuritySupply chain securityGitHub Actions
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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

AI-Native Developers: Why Fast Authoring Is Creating Bad Debuggers

Every few decades, a technological shift fundamentally alters the “barrier to entry” for human knowledge. The calculator didn’t kill mathematics, but it changed how we teach it. The internet didn’t kill research, but it killed the encyclopedia. Today, we are facing a shift far more profound and, if left unaddressed, far more dangerous. Generative AI is not just changing how we write code; it is changing how we learn to think. In the present time, we see the “Junior Developer Crisis of 2026″ unfo

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